The Yankees Payroll

Joe Posnanski wrote a good post about the Yankees payroll. It’s something all of us non-Yankees fans know and complain about, but even as a fan of the high-spending Red Sox I can’t help but agree when he writes “You have one team (and only one team) playing the video game on cheat-mode.” The following …

Obvious Map

Like we didn’t all know this already…

Capturing the Cemetery

There’s a cemetery down a street that we really enjoy visiting. It’s old, picturesque, and has some great old trees. It’s very peaceful and relaxing to stroll around or just hang out under them. (Sidenote: we might accidentally be raising some “odd” kids who like cemeteries: often when we drive by one, they often exclaim …

Apple Good, Yankees Bad

Behind the Mac nerdery I enjoy on Daring Fireball is a typical Yankee fan: cocky and annoying. Update: Greg Knauss created a helpful Grease Monkey script to “fix” Daring Fireball this time of year: Damned Fireball.

Smarter Smart Playlists in iTunes

A new site (new to me, thanks to Daring Fireball), Finer Things in Mac, pointed out that iTunes 9 gives you more control over your smart playlists: Smart Playlists in iTunes 9 have become smarter. They now offer more granular, nested control over rules for collecting content. I’ve had some pretty complex playlists in my …

“Moments”

I watched this video on the train last night (via the Radio Lab podcast) and thought it was very cool, not to mention more moving than I thought it would be:

Ballcap Sticker Removal

Flip Flop Fly Ball is kind enough to provide a public service to the younger generation of baseball cap wearers: Ballcap sticker removal provides the instructions needed for removing the sticker from your new hat. Thanks Flip Flop Fly Ball!

Note to Self: Be More Like Ben

Buzz Andersen on Benjamin Franklin’s Daily Schedule: When you’re a person who works alone, and whose fortunes are completely dependent on your own day-to-day productivity, it can be very easy to fall into the trap of working all the time… Franklin’s plan is an inspiration to me because it reminds me why I went down …